Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me

Sharing because I'm reliving the wonder of my eight year old self!!!

So in trying to get over my block I'm just writing weird snippets of things all over the place, including a Reboot/Sherlock fusion fic that began through a series of texts with 100wordspermin. I hope to finish it, but in case I don't, here, have a thousand words of ridiculousness.

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IDEK, you guys.

All of the spoilers, you guys. ALL OF THEM.

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About Star Trek.

So I was taking a break from translating Beowulf (as happens) to read about seventeenth century radicalism in England (as happens) and ended up developing a theory about the new Star Trek (…as happens). Okay, so we know JJ Abrams likes to reference well-known philosophical and political thinkers in his stuff, e.g. Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau from Lost. Now in my reading I found out about a guy named James Harrington who was a member of the Diggers, a proto-communist group who wanted to reclaim land from the government for use by the poor as a means of socio-economic improvement. During the Revolution, this didn’t go so well, obviously, but there were several attempts to essentially squat on unused lands for farming that led to conflicts—sometimes but not always violent—with the government.

Now consider the terrorist of Star Trek Into Darkness, John Harrison. (Not exact, but close, right?) Now, there’s a lot of theories trying to tie him back to Khan, but Khan never saw himself as a terrorist or a protestor, he was always just the usurped authority. The terrorist group we have seen close to this time period is Terra Prime, during the period of Enterprise—whose continuity is confirmed intact with Reboot, since the alternate timeline would start ~50 years after Archer establishes the Federation, and there’s reference to both Archer and his beagle, with writers’ confirmation that it was the SAME Archer. Now, Terra Prime was initially established in the wake of the Xindi attacks on Earth, and assumed to have been successfully dissolved in the latter episodes of Enterprise. Now, in Reboot there were several devastating attacks—the Kelvin Disaster, followed 25 years later by the Battle of Vulcan and the Battle of Earth, with the cumulative loss of multiple Starfleet vessels, the entirety of Vulcan, and a chunk of San Francisco. Obviously there would be huge socio-economic outfalls from this; we can already extrapolate from Reboot that the Kelvin Disaster not only expedited technological change but also the enhanced militarism we see during the film (I’ve always been struck by Pike’s reference to Starfleet as a “humanitarian and peacekeeping armada” which implies general benevolence but ALSO implies a standing heavy military force; and historians will note—HI ANTON—that the term “armada” has only ever really been connected with the Spanish armada, eg a heavily ideological force primed for invasion.)

So we could conceivably extrapolate a few things from all this: Harrison, as a member of a self-identified terrorist organization on a planet reeling from significant attacks (Earth) wants to reclaim a bit of control for the betterment of “the common man.” (There’s no such thing as an upper-class terrorist.) It would make sense that one method such an individual could see would be wanting access to government-controlled properties—eg M-class worlds that Starfleet visits but regulates the colonization of. Going back to the historical Harrington, he would see land lying fallow that working people should have access to. Therefore it would make sense that he would want access to both the land as an ultimate goal and the destruction of Starfleet as a method to get there.

Alright, folks. DISCUSS.

So I didn't really know about this until I got some emails because I've half fallen off the Earth (again), but I won some medals over at the jim_and_bones comm's Fic Olympics! Thanks to everyone who (still) reads and noms!!!!!!! <333333333



Crossovers:

Outride the Sun
Rating: NC-17 (Language, Sex, Violence)
Word Count: 56,356
Summary: Being seventeen sucks. So does moving to a Hellmouth, discovering the girl of your dreams is a Slayer and that you just might be in love with a vampire. Or, How Leonard McCoy Got a Stake, Got a Life, and Got Laid. A BTVS/Trek XI mash-up/crossover.

That Which They Defend
Rating: NC-17 (Language, Violence, Sex)
Word Count: 52,461
Pairing: Kirk/Eomer, Eomer/Lothiriel, Kirk/McCoy
Summary: Jim Kirk in Middle Earth: There, and back again.

Modern day AU:

Common Grounds
Rating: NC-17 (Explicit sexual content)
Word Count: 25,795
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy, Spock/Uhura
Summary: Modern day AU. Leonard McCoy tries online dating. A story of coffee, printing, and the Internet.




Time Travel:

Something To Hold On To
Rating: PG (Language, Mild Sexual Content)
Word Count: 5,352
Summary: AU. Leonard McCoy is a doctor, Jim Kirk is--something else. He's not sure what. Neither is the government.


Modern day AU:

Subject and Degree
Rating: NC-17 (Language, Sex)
Word Count: 5,807
Summary: Modern day AU. Leonard McCoy enrolls in Professor Kirk’s Seminar on Metaphysical Poets. The class isn’t what he’s expecting, in a number of ways.

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Tangentially related, check out this article on fanfic in the Guardian: In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades. Fairly comprehensive overview of fic history, a couple of minor mistakes, but also link heavy. I approve!

Title: As Seen In the Mirror
Author: caitri
Rating: G
Pairings: Kirk/McCoy (pre-slash)
Word Count: 925
Summary: A young Jim Kirk sees his heart’s desire—or possibly, his future.
Disclaimer: I know this may come as a shock, but I am not, amazing as it may seem, Gene Roddenberry, J.J. Abrams, Paramount or Bad Robot. Just so you know. With further apologies to J.K. Rowling.
A/N: So during Word Wars at jim_and_bones, shortstack88 suggested a challenge of Harry Potter/Trek crossovers. This is what happened. With thanks to fairyniamh for the title.

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Title: Heaven is Bloodless
Author: caitri
Rating: NC-17 (Language, Sex)
Pairings: Kirk/McCoy, Kirk/McCoy/Miramanee, Sam/Miramanee
Word Count: 53,126
Summary: AU. Slowly recovering from past tragedy, Jim Kirk nó Pike decides to venture to Terra Nova in search of something like peace. Where else would Leonard McCoy nó Balm be but at his side? An STXI mashup with Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy series. Sequel to Love As Thou Wilt. And Anemones Bloomed is a companion story.
Warning: Mentions past non-con and past character deaths.
Disclaimer: I know this may come as a shock, but I am not, amazing as it may seem, Gene Roddenberry, J.J. Abrams, Paramount or Bad Robot. Just so you know.
A/N 1: Written for heeroluva as part of thepurpledove. Thanks to suddenlyswept for linguistic help, tocourtdisaster for multiple read throughs, and to avictoriangirl as the heroic final beta!

A/N2: Because a vague disclaimer is no one’s friend: I’m liberally rewriting the TOS episode “The Paradise Syndrome” by Margaret Armen. One of the (many) problems of this episode is the stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans/indigenous peoples. (Their planet is called Amerind if that gives you any idea how it goes.) Anyhow, in this rewrite some aspects of Algonquin culture and history are being adopted as background for this story. Sources will be listed in the Notes at the end.

This also takes place in Jacqueline Carey’s marvelous universe from her Kushiel’s Legacy series. For this story, I expanded on Carey’s creation by, uh, a lot, though I tried to keep it as credible as possible considering the events described take place several hundred years after those of her books. So anyone who decides to read them after reading this and ends up confused…sorry. Really.

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Prologue
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Epilogue

And last but not least, tocourtdisaster made an epic mix to accompany the story. Go leave her love!!!!!!

Melissa: Cait, on TOS, who sang “Take Me Home, Kathleen” over the intercom system?
Me: …
Melissa: Cait! You should KNOW this!
Me: I’m thinking! It sounds like a trick question, because the character that always sang was Lt. Uhura, but this is an Irish song so it’s gotta be from an ep where people go crazy, so…Kevin Riley?
Melissa: YES! I KNEW YOU’D KNOW!
Oh yeah, that’s why they pay me the big—well, it’s why they pay me, anyhow.

Title: And Anemones Bloomed
Author: caitri
Rating: R
Pairings: Sam Kirk/Miramanee, Kirk/McCoy (at the very end)
Word Count: 6,826
Summary: An STXI mashup with Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy series. Sequel of sorts to Love As Thou Wilt, prefacing my current work in progress and true sequel, Heaven is Bloodless. Or, the story of Miramanee, daughter of Goro, and Samuel Kirok. Written for heeroluva.
Warnings: Underage sex in a historical context.
Disclaimer: I know this may come as a shock, but I am not, amazing as it may seem, Gene Roddenberry, J.J. Abrams, Paramount or Bad Robot. Just so you know.
A/N: Because a vague disclaimer is no one’s friend: I’m liberally rewriting the TOS episode “The Paradise Syndrome” by Margaret Armen. One of the (many) problems of this episode is the stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans/indigenous peoples. (Their planet is called Amerind if that gives you any idea how it goes.) Anyhow, in this rewrite many aspects of Powhatan culture and history are being adopted as background for this story.

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Title: Home
Rating: G
Pairing: Kirk/McCoy
Words: 112
Summary: McCoy returns from a trip.
Notes/Warnings: It was a dare to see if I could do a drabble. I was so close...

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